RELATED TERMS: The Commodity; Design History; Libidinal Economy – Part 1 “Valuing is a form of ranking” (Kelleher, 2015) Preamble The question for design practices running through the following text is whether they partake in keeping us focused on, in the words of Issberner and Lena (2023), “a naive faith in progress, consumerist ideology andContinue reading “Design, Axiology and Value – Part 1”
Category Archives: Design Contexts
The Twentieth Century, America, Americanisation [Snippets 7]
RELATED TERMS: In 1932, Gertrude Stein wrote that America is, “the oldest country in the world because by the methods of the civil war and the commercial conceptions that followed it America created the twentieth century, and since all the other countries are now either living or commencing to be living a twentieth century life,Continue reading “The Twentieth Century, America, Americanisation [Snippets 7] “
Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers
RELATED TERMS: Design History; Iconic Designs, Critical Designs “Kenya Hara is a design icon.” (Design Intaba, 2004) Design is often spoken of in terms of ‘iconic’ designs[1] and ‘iconic’ designers. ‘Iconic’ designs are discussed frequently in terms of individual entities – ‘things’. ‘Iconic’ designers are individual, named designers – ‘persons’. ‘Iconic’ designs are most often productContinue reading “Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers”
Technology, Writing, Design
RELATED TERMS: Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen One area to be explored and developed in understanding design practices in the 21st century are the relationships among the notions of writing, technology and design. To what extent is the understanding of designing and designs aided by considering them as practices of writing and as bodies of writing, onContinue reading “Technology, Writing, Design”
Finnegans Wake (and Design)
RELATED TERMS: Design: Incomplete Conjectures “The Wake, fin negans, begets only beginnings but invalidates all origins…” (Rabaté, 1984: 79) In the understanding of design being constructed in the Incomplete … website, design can be grasped in four main modalities: as a set of professional practices, sub-divided by (industrial era and digital era) designed outputs; as academicContinue reading “Finnegans Wake (and Design) “
Fordism and Post-Fordism
RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Remembering; Introduction: Design practices, political-economic and socio-cultural conditions Design practices are contextualised by the political-economic and the socio-cultural circumstances in which they are invented and deployed as specific responses that are considered appropriate to those circumstances. For example, design practices may take up different roles in aContinue reading “Fordism and Post-Fordism”
Design: Incomplete Conjectures
RELATED TERMS: Finnegans Wake (and Design); Methodology and Method First … Design as a professional, social practice has historically been divided according to its material outputs, its concrete products, using categories that have become conventional. For example, jewellery design produces items of jewellery, fashion design produces items of clothing and architectural design produces buildings andContinue reading “Design: Incomplete Conjectures”
Theoretical Practice
RELATED TERMS: Actor Network Theory; Avant-Garde Movements; Cinema and Film Theory; Creative Thinking; Critical Theory; Critical Thinking; Design and Theory: Total Design; Design History; Design Practice and Functionalism; Heidegger; Interaction Design; Methodology and Method; Open Systems Theory; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Practice; Sculpture; Sloterdijk; World-Building It could be argued that a design, in bringing theory together withContinue reading “Theoretical Practice”
Ontological Designing
RELATED TERMS: Design History; Design Practice and Functionalism; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Latour; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Object-Oriented Ontology; Ontological Turn; Ontology In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger writes that, “The point is not to gain some knowledge about philosophy but to be able to philosophise.” If, to paraphrase Heidegger, the point is notContinue reading “Ontological Designing”
Methodology and Method
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Avant-garde movements; Critical Theory; Critical thinking; Cultural Studies; Dissensus – Ranciere; Ethnomethodology; Feminism and Materialism; Historical materialism – Marxism; Multimodal research; Ontology; Performance and Performativity; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Psychogeography; Research Methodologies; Storyworld; Theoretical Practice; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges “philosophers and literary theorists frequently refer to theories as stories (in this story we have to acceptContinue reading “Methodology and Method”
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